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North Wales Walking Festivals

Most of the Walking Festivals in North Wales now have
geocaching as an integral part of the event. Festivals at
Rhuddlan, Prestatyn, Conwy, Pentrefoelas and Anglesey allowed
some 70 people to enjoy an afternoon being introduced to the
sport by expert help with free loan of pre-programmed GPS units.
Some 50 caches were visited in all and many adults and children
were inspired by the many opportunities which now lay before
them. Every week a dozen or so caches are added to the total in
Wales and this is a wonderful opportunity for more and more
followers of this sport to get out into the countryside and
enjoy this beautiful country

Mega
Wales 2011 - Swansea 31st of July 2011

The venue has been specifically chosen to provide facilities
for geocachers and non-geocachers alike. There is easy access to
the town centre, beach and leisure complex as well as the odd
cache or two!

The glorious Gower Peninsula and beautiful Brecon Beacons
National Park are within easy reach of Swansea making it a
perfect holiday location – so whether you come for the day,
weekend or longer there will be plenty to do.

As well as the Mega Event itself there will be numerous side
events in the wonderful Welsh countryside including hill and
coastal walks, beach barbecues & family fun days. Full details
can be found on the
Mega Wales website.

Minister for Tourism visits Geocaching Wales HQ!

Friday 16 May 2008

Mr Rhodri Glyn Thomas came to
Aberdaron to see how local businesses are working to
promote tourism in the area. He was impressed
to see how we have set up Geocaching Wales and to
discover the activity of geocaching. He thought it was a
excellent way of exploring the Welsh countryside and
culture.

Geocachingwales.com was launched at the NEC Outdoor Show last
weekend Friday the 14th to Sunday the 16th March.

We can report a very successful geocaching event at the
Crickhowell Walking Festival on Saturday and Sunday the 1st /
2nd of March and 8th / 9th of March. Caches were hidden a
various places around Crickhowell and the grid references and
clues as to their whereabouts were published on the internet.
Special tokens were distributed to each cache for the geocachers
to collect and, on each weekend, the first team to collect a set
of tokens and hand it in to the Tourist Information Centre
received a prize. There was also an area set aside where
geocachers met to talk about geocaching and exchange travel
bugs. 50 teams competed and the whole event was a great success.
Thanks goes to Sambedr for 2 brilliant weekends. Full details
can be read
here and pics can be seen
here